On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:52 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was thinking it signalled the population's sentiments and an indicator > > for 2016 election period. > > > > A ton of that depends on how the next 12-18 months plays out. I'm going to > put my ideologue hat aside for a moment and talk pure DC politics. > > Truth be told, if the GOP wants to maintain control they need to not go > after the button issues, rather McConnell needs to be the exact opposite of > Harry Reid. As Majority Leader, Reid controlled the items that came to the > floor of the Senate. There were a number of items in your list that could > have been debated, amended and voted on that Reid did not bring to the > floor. > Boehner did the same thing as Reid in the House. More proof that the two sides are not that different from each other. > > From a political perspective it would actually be better for the GOP to run > the Congress as openly and transparently as possible. Let there be debates > and let the American people see where their elected officials actually > stand on all of the issues. > I am not sure the financial backers of all politicians want/would allow that. I shudder to think what would happen if a politician actually listened to the will of their constituency. > > It's funny, Viv, you said that the DNC needs to, "start playing the GOP > game." As Jerry said, national elections are like a pendulum. I agree to > a large degree, look back over time and you'll see the shifting. I also > disagree because I don't think that the American public has been convinced > that the GOP will need to be replaced then. > The GOP did a great job of convincing people that their current lot in life is solely the responsibility of the Democratic party, more specifically, President Obama. Unless, they are well off, in which case, the President and Democrats had nothing to do with it. I hope that President Obama and Congress can come up with real compromises, and not what we have seen in recent years where neither side is willing to budge, at all, on any issue. Ted Cruz was strutting around talking about repealing Obamacare now that GOP has majority in the Senate and refused to answer the question if he will support McConnell as Majority Leader - nothing could kill the feeling of unity the GOP is feeling right now than some in-fighting in their own party. > > Presidential year elections have larger voter turn-out and even more money > involved. Ideologue that I am (and I can afford to be, I'm *not* an > elected official nor am I a part of any party organization), my hope is > that both sides field fresh candidates. I'm expecting to be disappointed > in that but I can hope. We're going to see the DNC decry anything that the > GOP has done, the GOP go after administrative bogey-men and at least 17.5% > of the candidates will have a video where there sleeves are rolled up and > they are holding their suit coat over their shoulder. > I am already dreading the election in 2 years. It will be yet another election where we need to choose form the best of bad choices. We need some serious campaign reform, sadly, no one currently in office would ever go for it. -- Scott Stroz --------------- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris http://xkcd.com/386/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:372872 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
